A: Crowd Lu, Jiajia and legendary singer Sting will stage shows during the three-day Teachers’ Day long weekend.
B: But I thought that Teachers’ Day, on Sunday, isn’t a national holiday. Why is there an extra compensation holiday on Monday?
A: Haven’t you heard? Opposition legislators passed a new law to add five national holidays annually.
Photo: Liberty Times 照片：自由時報
B: Seriously? What are the other four holidays?
A: They include the day before Lunar New Year’s Eve, Labor Day on May 1, Taiwan Retrocession Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Guningtou in Kinmen on Oct. 25, as well as Constitution Day on Dec. 25.
A: 本週六到下週一是3天教師節連假，傳奇歌手史汀、盧廣仲、家家都將開唱。
B: 週日教師節又不是國定假日，週一怎麼會補假一天？
A: 你都沒聽說嗎？在野黨立委通過立法，每年多增加了5天國定假日！
B: 真假啊？另外4天是什麼節日？
A: 有農曆小年夜、還有5月1日勞動節、10月25日台灣光復／金門古寧頭大捷紀念日、12月25日行憲紀念日。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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